WISHFUL THINKING

Thought I wouldn't get time to get in a review before the year ends but then I realized I'd written this two months back and forgot to post it! TITLE: MOCKINGBIRD (Miriam Black #2) AUTHOR: CHUCK WENDIG PUBLISHER: ANGRY ROBOT GOODREADS SUMMARY: Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" that Louis has going for her just isn't working out. She lives on Long Beach Island all year around. Her home is a run-down double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a check-out girl. And her relationship with Louis--who's on the road half the time in his truck--is subject to the piss and vinegar Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn't going well. Still, she's keeping her psychic ability--to see when and how someone is going to die just by touching them--in check. But even that feels wrong somehow. Like she's keeping a tornado stoppered up in a tiny bottle. Then comes one bad day that turns it all ...

Title: Blackbirds Author: Chuck Wendig ( http://www.terribleminds.com/ ) Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Dark Series: Miriam Black #1 Length: 384 pages My Copy: Purchased for Kindle Reader on iPad Goodreads Summary: Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be gruesomely murdered while he calls her name. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim. No matter what she does she can't save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she'll have to try. REVIEW: How do you review a book like “Blackbirds?” I literally had to drag myself to the laptop to type this out, because good sense dictates I should refrain from writing a review f...